you seen a live shot where president will be campaigning for congressman craven who won the republican primary in north dakota this month. while we wait, national security advisor john bolton was in moscow and at announce president trump and putin will be scheduling a meeting to be held in the coming weeks. it is a portion of the press conference. president trump asked me to come and speak to you about russian authorities about the possibility of a meeting between him and president putin. there will be an announcement on that tomorrow, simultaneously in moscow and washington on the date and the time of that meeting.

with any luck i won't give either the pieces of information today so that the kremlin and the white house can announce it tomorrow. and i should also say i was pleased to be able to meet with mr. gianni infantino the fisa president to discuss the u.s., canada and mexico 2020 u.s. cup.

and so with that i would be happy to answer your questions.

i think both president trump and president putin feel it's important for these two leaders of these two critically important countries to get together and discuss their mutual problems and areas of cooperation. it's something that both feel will contribute to improvements in it the russia, bilateral

relationship, and stability around the world. i don't think it's anything unusual for president trump and president to meet. if you just look at meetings in the past year, united kingdom, germany, france, greece, finland, austria, belgium, and italy have all had bilateral meetings with president putin. so just taken europe as an example, many many leaders of europe have met with president putin in this kind of context. i think president trump felt this was the time to get together.

>> a year ago when president trump and putin met in germany, president putin denied to trump that russia had interfered in the u.s. election. after that you wrote an article in the daily telegraph calling russian elective interference a true act of war. you said that this episode. we are reading the event, we return to our live coverage here on c-span three. president trump is coming out to speak in a campaign rally in support of republican congressman kramer. senator hyde camp, the incumbent democrat was elected in 2012. congressman kramer won the north dakota gop primary for the u.s. senate earlier this month. the rally is being held at shields arena in fargo north